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Lake Orion child porn case called 'worst in 20 years'

In what one investigator called the worst case he had seen in 20 years, a White Lake man was bound over for trial today on charges he sexually assaulted children in his home as part of a pornography operation that he and his wife allegedly ran together.

Colin Matthew Boyle, 29, a convicted sex offender with two prior convictions, allegedly ran a child pornography scheme that involved his wife sending him photos of naked children. The couple took photos and videos of nude children as young as one year old, court records show.

“This type of investigation will always rock a community to its core and the gravity of the crime and the helplessness of the victims impacts even seasoned investigators,” Lake Orion Police Chief Jerry Narsh said today. “There may be more that comes from this investigation.”

According to court documents and Lake Orion police, Colin and Angela Boyle came under investigation last fall after a trail of electronic evidence led authorities to believe that the husband had been accessing child pornography on the Internet. In November, the FBI and Lake Orion police raided the couple's White Lake home, as well as Boyle's parents' home in Lake Orion. Computers and other storage data were removed from the homes.

During the search, FBI agents interviewed the couple, both of whom admitted to sending each other child pornography over their cell phones.

"(The wife) explained to law enforcement that child pornography is the only thing that sexually excited Colin Matthew Boyle,” an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit.

According to the affidavit, during the search, federal agents found a "point and click" video camera that contained a video of a naked one-year-old girl, whom the Boyles knew – and a man's voice resembling the husband's could be heard during the recording. Angela Boyle admitted that together, she and her husband engaged that same one-year-old girl in the video and another 3-year-old boy in sexually explicit activity on at least four occasions, the affidavit said.

Lake Orion police also determined that in addition to the federal pornography crimes, sexual assaults also occurred, so they obtained charges from the Oakland County prosecutor's office.

Today, Boyle, who is jailed on a $750,000 cash bond, was bound over for trial in Oakland County Circuit Court following a probable cause hearing. His attorney could not be reached for comment.